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Goemkarponn desk VASCO: General meet decides to celebrate the annual Shree Damodar Bhajani Saptah of Vasco with traditional fervour on August 3, adhering to Covid19 safety measures. In a general meeting held on Sunday, The decision was taken to celebrate the annual Shree Damodar Bhajani Saptah traditionally has great religious fervour, which was not celebrated for the last two years due to the Covid pandemic. Samiti at the Damodar temple on Sunday, during its general body meeting, elected Krishna Sonurlekar as the president of the Shree Damodar Bhajani Saptah, Shekar Khadapkar has been elected as the vice-president, Santosh Khorjuvekar was…

Goemkarponn desk QUEPEM: Non-stop rainfall in Quepem and Sanguem taluka has led to water-logging in most areas. Uninterrupted heavy rainfall, which continued for the past few days, has resulted in flooding streets, fields, and drainages in Quepem, Curchorem main road side areas. In the morning, between 7 to 9 am, there has been heavy rainfall which has continued from last night, and this is the reason why roadsides are flooded. In certain places, the situation has worsened due to the absence of the drainage system at Quepem Curchorem road. In some areas, there are drainages, but due to the lack…

Goemkarponn desk MOLLEM: In a massive landslide incident today morning at 11 am at Anmod Ghat, traffic on Mollem-Belgaum road was blocked, and traffic jams for long hours. Serpentine queues of vehicles were witnessed stranded after the landslide. There is an effort to clear debris on a war footing. Later there was a landslide at one more spot. The fire personnel team said most of the debris was cleared, the rest would be cleared soon, and by evening traffic would resume. It is learnt that following the collapse of the huge tree, there was a massive landslide and huge debris…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Congress Party today submitted a memorandum to the Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly, Ramesh Tawadkar, demanding a probe into the lost Assembly Records as claimed by Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant. The Representation signed by all eleven MLAs of the Congress was handed over to the Speaker by Deputy CLP Leader Sankalp Amonkar, Working President Yuri Alemao and Quepem MLA Altone D’Costa. The Memorandum addressed to the Speaker states, “This to bring to your kind notice that the Hon’ble Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has made a Public Statement during his speech at an event organised by…

Goemkarponn desk PORVORI: Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo said that the State government has to come clear why it delayed conducting the OBC reservations. Speaking to reporters after the Congress Legislative Party meeting, Lobo said that the main discussion was the reservation for the OBC category, which the government denied through SEC notification. “We demand to know why the data is not ready. Today at the last minute, you are trying to gather the data. We will not accept the hap-hazard survey. We want a thorough survey, which the government had enough time to do. We want to know why…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – The treacherous one-way diversion on NH-66 road is further turned into a death kneel to motorists with large potholes at the foot of Karmalghat at Barcem in Quepem taluka. The presence of large potholes at the beginning of the newly constructed Culvert bridge at Barcem to the traffic proceeding to Canacona is not only threatening safe driving but also hinders and risks motorists proceeding towards Margao, turning the entire highway stretch dangerously prone to accidents. It may be recalled that PWD has recently completed the construction of a Culvert bridge across an existing one(a Portuguese-era narrow…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu common man, was brutally murdered in his tailoring shop by two radical Jihadis in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The two Jihadis not only recorded themselves committing the dastardly act but also gave an open threat, laughing while they did it, to the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nupur Sharma. Similarly, Umesh Kolhe, a pharmacy owner, was killed by radical jihadis in Maharashtra’s Amaravati. “These are not ordinary incidents but an assault on civil society, the constitution, and democracy,” said Hindu Raksha Maha Aghadi, strongly condemning these killings. Such inhuman Jihadi acts, which used to…